Playing for Time

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discussed in biography

...the acclaimed television miniseries
How the West Was Won, an epic about a family moving to Oregon in the 1860s. More praise followed for the TV movie
Playing for Time (1980; codirected with Joseph Sargent), a drama based on the life of Fania Fénelon, a musician at Auschwitz who survived the horrors of the camp by performing in a...

role of Redgrave

...smaller films with well-written scripts or classical overtones. Her controversial performance as a Nazi concentration camp victim in the television adaptation of Arthur Miller’s
Playing for Time (1980) won her an Emmy Award, though, as a longtime supporter of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), she was widely criticized for accepting the role. She received...